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" I was playing this character, Melchior Gabor, who was a rebel and who was a person who didn't let the world define him, and who stood up to authority and was this kind of revolutionary... And when I left 'Spring Awakening,' I came out of that experience feeling like... I had cultivated this side of my personality that hadn't existed before. "

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" When I was doing 'Spring Awakening' the first couple of years I was living in New York, I was gay, and I was living with my 'roommate,' who was my boyfriend but was my roommate to everyone else. "

Jonathan Groff

Spring

New York

Living

" I did 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances. "

" Before 'Mindhunter,' I was doing this show called 'Looking' on HBO. "

" I moved to New York on October 21, 2004, and it was the day that the Chelsea Grill, a restaurant in Hell's Kitchen on 9th Avenue between 46th and 47th Street, opened. I had never waited a table in my life, but I walked in and lied to the manager in a very J. Pierrepont Finch way. "

" I got cast for 'Spring Awakening' when I was 20. Every dream I had came true in that moment. "

" I was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was 3, with lipstick and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in a production in my dad's barn. "

" While I was in high school, I saw Sutton Foster in 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' and she was the one that was most inspiring to me for sure. I saw 'Millie' 6 times in a span of two years or so. "

Jonathan Groff

High School

High

" I left 'Spring Awakening,' and within a month of leaving the show, I came out to my parents and to my friends and broke up with my boyfriend and moved into an apartment of my own and completely changed my life. "

" The difference between being in the closet and out of the closet as a gay man is such a huge shift. I feel so connected still to that 22-year-old, but the idea that I was not open with that part of my life - which I am now so open about - is sort of surreal. "

" I was journaling in Florence, and I was like, 'Oh, I have to come out of the closet. I have to break up with this guy' - he was my 'roommate.' So that was my awakening moment, when I stepped into my own skin while in a foreign country by myself and had a very stereotypical moment of revelation. "

" In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film, it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act, and you're in the audience. "

" If I've had roadblocks along the way for being gay, I'm not aware of them. "

" Maybe someday I'll have a job where it haunts me or it's hard to move on. "

" I'd always done musicals, and so living in the world of straight plays and working with off-Broadway actors and living in that community was a completely life-changing experience. "

" I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So, the first time I was nominated for 'Spring Awakening,' it felt like a surreal dream: it was every childhood dream I had come true. It felt like a fairy tale. "

" We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest. "

Jonathan Groff

Club

You

" I am such a huge fan of both of those shows - I've seen every episode of 'Sex in the City' and every episode of 'Girls' at least once, some multiple times. "

" People create from different places. Some love to create from a tortured place, some from a joyful place. And when I feel like I'm a 5-year-old kid in my backyard playing pretend, that's when I'm happiest. "

" When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting. "

" I love the you-never-know-what's-going-to-happen aspect of doing concerts. "

" I've never had trouble sleeping in my life. "

" I love interacting with an audience. I love just being myself in front of a crowd. "

" The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea. "

" My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director. "

" Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that the show is. "

" When you get to really involve yourself with a piece and the other people, and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think. "

Jonathan Groff

Work

Together

" I smile a lot in my real life. "

" I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite. "

" It's so awesome to be a part of something that is successful not because there's a famous person in it or because it's a revival of something, but because it's so fresh and original. "

" There's something special about 'Looking.' "